International Arctic Buoy Program

Sea-ice drift in the central Arctic Ocean has been monitored since 1979 under the direction of the International Arctic Buoy Program.

Arctic climate variability in the twentieth century 2009

Arctic Buoy Program (USIABP) to the Arctic Observing Network (AON) and the International Arctic Buoy Program (IABP) to maintain a network of automatic data buoys to monitor synoptic-scale fields of surface air pressure, air temperature and ice motion throughout the Arctic Ocean.

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Ocean data come from the International Arctic Buoy Program.

NASA Earth Observatory 2009

After analyzing past data from ground-based stations based in northern Alaska, on the mobile Fletcher's Ice Island, and in North Pole area's formerly claimed by then-Soviet Union, and others scattered across the Arctic by the International Arctic Buoy Program, Hakkinen and colleagues reported an increase over 56 years in maximum summer sea ice speeds from about 20 centimeters per second to more than 60 centimeters per second, and wintertime speeds from about 15 centimeters per second to about 50 centimeters per second.

EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2008